The team behind the iCub robot believes that robots, like children, learn best from experience. Like a toddler who progressively learns about his own motor skills and how to interact with the world, the iCub'''the size of a 3-year-old child, with sensor-equipped hands, eyes, and ears'''has touch, sight, and hearing to explore its surroundings and develop its cognitive abilities.The iCub is the baby of RobotCub, the European Union'''funded project that aims to advance research on the use of humanoid robots to understand human learning